abdullah alaoudh, we must leave _ anymore. abdullah alaoudh, we must leave it _ anymore.ymore. abdullah alaoudh, we must leave it there but - anymore. abdullah alaoudh, we must leave it there but great i must leave it there but great to have you on. thank you. thank you so much. to nigeria now, and another abduction of hundreds of schoolchildren. president muhammadu buhari says the government will not succumb to blackmail by criminals who target innocent children following the abduction this time of 317 schoolgirls from a boarding school. the kidnapping occurred in the north—west state of zamfara. the governor has ordered all schools to close in response. mayenijones reports. the lucky few. these students were amongst those who are not kidnapped on friday morning. over 100 gunmen stormed this all—girls secondary school in the town ofjangebe, taking 317 students with them. security forces have been deployed to the area. we are on the trail of the kidnappers — that's why you find us on the fringes of the forest here as part of our locational efforts, and as part of our cord

well, earlier i spoke to abdullah alaoudh, who is research director for saudi arabia at the non—profitn dawn, democracy for the arab world now. i asked him what his reaction was to the us intelligence report. well, first of all, we were glad that it came out finally, and the administration finally followed the law that was enacted by the congress after the killing of khashoggi. and we think it's a very — a huge step, but also a first step. 0k, a first step, then. would you like to see the crown prince be held accountable in some way? absolutely, and that's why — that's when we get disappointed at the administration today. while we were glad that the report points the finger to mbs, implicates him in the murder in a very transparent way, we think that not sanctioning him and falling short of that move is unfortunate. so you would want sanctions. what would that mean? well, things like freezing assets, banning him from travel and coming to the us or any other western country, and putting him actually — allowing for legal actions against him. and we already started this, so it means — par